Richard Sherman on Michael Crabtree: ‘I don’t like the dude’

Seahawks star Richard Sherman already let the world know what he thinks of 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree. The rival wideout was the target of Sherman’s infamous postgame rant after his tipaway from Crabtree won Seattle the NFC championship game.

“When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that’s the result you’re gonna get! Don’t you ever talk about me!” Sherman yelled on live, national television as Fox broadcaster Erin Andrews held the microphone. “Don’t you open your mouth about the best, or I’m going to shut it for you real quick!”

Richard Sherman celebrates after the Seahawks’ victory over the 49ers in the NFC title game Jan. 19 in Seattle. (Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images)

Well, Sherman is talking about Crabtree again, this time in an episode of the Discovery Channel’s “American Muscle” that aired Wednesday evening. In the show, Sherman recalls the tiff between he and Crabtree during the Seahawks’ 23-17 victory that sent Seattle to Super Bowl XLVIII.

As Sherman has previously explained, Crabtree apparently talked trash about Sherman throughout the entire matchup Jan. 19 at CenturyLink Field. When San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick finally challenged Sherman by passing toward Crabtree in the end zone as time wound down, Sherman batted the ball into the waiting hands of Seattle linebacker Malcolm Smith, sealing the Seahawks’ victory.

After time expired, Sherman approached Crabtree for a handshake, saying “good game.” Crabtree apparently didn’t appreciate the gesture and shoved Sherman in the facemask. That set Sherman off for his interview with Andrews.

“If much more of just, I don’t like the dude,” Sherman said of Crabtree in “American Muscle,” as reported by USA Today’s For the Win, which got an early viewing. “You know what I’m saying? And I think he’s sorry. So it’s really what it comes down to.”

So, Sherman is not backtracking.

“It’s not going to be something that goes away,” Sherman said of his feelings. ‘I hope to play him every year for the rest of my career and choke him out. There’s not much else I can say about the subject. Nobody will understand it but him and me. That’s all that needs to understand.”